Volleyball 2019 Discussion Thread

[VolleyRuller96 264]

[DaniSRB 899]

Netherlands and Poland will host 2022 women's World Championship

[MHSN 3,777]

Draw for the 2019 Asian Volleyball Championship, for the first time we will have some form of qualifiers as AVC limited the number of countries to 16. even though we usually never had more than 20 countries in the competition. Iran will host the men's competition (3rd time in last 5 editions) and South Korea will host the women's tournament

 

Men's tournament

Group A) Central 2

Group B)

Group C) West 2 Central 1

Group D) West 1

 

* Central Asian qualifiers will be between

* West Asian qualifiers will be between

 

Women's tournament

Group A)

Group B)

Group C)

Group D)

[phelps 8,285]

it looks that the Dutch born spiker Dick Kooy could play for Italy in the next future...

he got married with an Italian woman and now he just completed all the burocratic tasks to get the Italian citizenship...

he also said he would be happy to be part of the Italian team (he's currently playing in Russia, but he did play already in the Italian league -in Modena and Macerata, to be precise- for a few years between 2009 and 2013)...

[heywoodu 16,004]

On 19/02/2019 at 13:49, phelps said:

it looks that the Dutch born spiker Dick Kooy could play for Italy in the next future...

he got married with an Italian woman and now he just completed all the burocratic tasks to get the Italian citizenship...

he also said he would be happy to be part of the Italian team (he's currently playing in Russia, but he did play already in the Italian league -in Modena and Macerata, to be precise- for a few years between 2009 and 2013)...

That's almost three years old, I wonder what the 'new news' is?  

March 2016:

https://www.volleybal.nl/nieuws/dick-kooy-en-nederlands-team-uit-elkaar

 

It says Kooy won't play for the Dutch team anymore and he asked for an Italian passport to make it easier to compete in the Italian competition. Already in 2016 he was married with an Italian woman and had a house in Milan, which at that time he said is where he wanted to settle permanently.

[phelps 8,285]

1 ora fa, heywoodu ha scritto:

That's almost three years old, I wonder what the 'new news' is?  

March 2016:

https://www.volleybal.nl/nieuws/dick-kooy-en-nederlands-team-uit-elkaar

 

It says Kooy won't play for the Dutch team anymore and he asked for an Italian passport to make it easier to compete in the Italian competition. Already in 2016 he was married with an Italian woman and had a house in Milan, which at that time he said is where he wanted to settle permanently.

 

3 years ago he said he would likely get the Italian citizenship and play for our NT...

the news is that now he finally completed the burocratic tasks and got his Italian passport, so from now he could play for Italy...

[Dunadan 1,103]

http://www.fivb.org/EN/Media/viewPressRelease.asp?No=80543&Language=en

 

The participating teams in the 2019 FIVB Volleyball Men's and Women's World Cups to be held later this year have been confirmed, as host cities across Japan for the two tournaments have been announced.

The competition, which this year will not be part of the Olympic Qualification process, features, for each gender, hosts Japan, the reigning world champions, plus the top two teams from each continental confederation according to the FIVB World Rankings.

The women's competition will run from 14 to 29 September, followed by the men's event from October 1 to 15.

• Women's 2019 FIVB World Cup:
Host: Japan
World Champion: Serbia
Asia: China & Korea
Africa: Cameroon & Kenya
Europe: Russia and the Netherlands
North and Central America and Caribbean: USA & Dominican Republic
South America: Brazil & Argentina

• Men's 2019 FIVB World Cup:
Host: Japan
World Champion: Poland
Asia: Iran & Australia
Africa: Egypt & Tunisia
Europe: Italy & Russia
North and Central America and Caribbean: USA & Canada
South America: Brazil & Argentina
 

[heywoodu 16,004]

Trouble in the Dutch men's league  

 

Sunday, 5th and deciding match of the final between reigning champion Lycurgus of Groningen and challengers Orion of Doetinchem. Lycurgus won the first two sets and at 25-24 an ace gave them the title.....until the referee decided the ball was out  

Not sure if the video works outside the Netherlands:

https://www.dvhn.nl/sport/Volleybalbond-erkent-foute-beslissing-arbitrage-in-kampioensduel-Lycurgus-tegen-Orion-24451346.html

 

Orion got the point, 25-25, and went on to hold on against 4 more match points in the same set, before turning it around and taking the win and the title in 14-16 final set. The Dutch federation has now said the referee's decision on match point was indeed wrong, but there is 0 chance of any replay.

[Olympian1010 8,230]

Tanzania going for Tokyo 2020?

 

[Gianlu33 5,276]

1 hour ago, Olympian1010 said:

Tanzania going for Tokyo 2020?

 

No